A Perfect Dedome?

My god! Put the light back together with the newly dedomed xm-l2 emitter. It has the worst green tint Iā€™ve ever seen. Totally unusableā€¦

Will Nitro thinner make the tint to change less to green?

And this is why you dedome cool white LEDs, not warm :wink:

It was an xm-l2 u2 1a emitter. So that shouldnā€™t be the problem. Maybe it was the thinner I used?

Tried it against my ZL sc600 mk iii hi first. Shouldnā€™t have done that :person_facepalming:

Guys. Any nitro thinner from your local shops should work. It does not have to be one I linked. Use from your own local market. For best results follow my mentioned method. My all come ultra clear so should yoursā€¦

Edit:

ā€œIf you want ultra clear dd die than do 15minutes of boiling(you must see bubbles if it is boiling hot) and after that put it in isoproply alcohol bath and blow with compressed air. Result like MEM or Mitko from this thread each timeā€¦ā€

And perfect method is revealed. :partying_face: For harder silicone base emitters that are hard nut to crack do the same but you can slightly and carefully cut them from side to side with scalpel which will allow better solvent penetration.

You will all thank me after this :slight_smile: I did lot of experiments with my market available solvents to find that the best stuff is in front of my nose in basement and it is even not that harmful since a lot of guys cleans paint on their hands and even face after messing themselves with color they just use mentioned nitro paint thinner on the skin :smiley:

P.S.
Did I mentioned that you can de dome them 5-15-50-100 or even 1000 if needed at once with this method? (just choose proper size pot)

Will the nitro solution dedome a XHP70.2 emitter?

I guess you should try :slight_smile: I am very convinced it will. Especially if you closely follow what I wrote. Good night peopleā€¦ 2amā€¦

Thanks for sharing luminarium iaculator. :+1:

:+1:

Just tried luminarium iaculatorā€™s metode with nitro paint thinner with two XM-L2 CW is works great :

Thank you so much for sharing this :+1:

This is proper result of my method :+1:

Thanksā€¦ :beer:

Edit:

Another tipā€¦ Donā€™t go to close with compressor air gun when blowing out remaining silicone. Strong compressor could be to much for that tiny wires. Use it at least 20-30 cm above led and if you can aim minus toward plus size of emitter (so all junk will fell over + wires in single blow).

What about the tint?


X6 XM-L2 CW DD

There is a bit of green on the very low modes but overall considering it started out as a unspecified XM-L2 CW with a blue tint, I would call the DD tint white.

Nice job khas!

Do you have a link to the thinner you used? Hopefully I can get it shipped to Sweden!

Never mind. I saw that you bought it in Italyā€¦

I have been trying to find nitro thinner in sweden but cant seem to find anyā€¦

Sledgestone if you are more successful please share your findings :slight_smile:

Iā€™ll try to find some. There might be some at a local paint shop.

That dedome and beam tint look really good khas! Congrats :beer:

Has anyone found that nitro solution in the USA? Care to share the link?

After reading about the nitro thinner, since I had some laying around, I decided to try dedoming an xhp50.2 that I plan to put in a convoy L2. The results were better than I expected: in ~10 minutes the dome came off without leaving much residue (but it took a bit of phosphor with it) and while I havenā€™t tried it in a flashlight yet, the tint seems to have changed very little (this was a 3A) and the infamous yellow tint shift seems to be less evident than before. Though Iā€™m not sure why that happened, I think it may be because of the thickness of the phosphor layer on the sides being reduced by the phosphor lost during the process.


I made some progress. Found this in Sweden.
http://www.lackbutiken.com/sv/hem/ppg-billack/tvatt/max-meyer-nitro-fortunning-1-literā€”pid50.html

Didnā€™t find a data sheet though, but Iā€™m pretty sure that itā€™s the same. Only thing missing is the Antinebbia part. Anyone know what it means?

My best guess is that Antinebbia means ā€œNo fogā€

I found this in the USA but not sure how much it costs or if it would work like luminarium iaculator has posted

The only places in the US that might carry it are

And a hobby nitro thinner that might also work is this one

https://www.ebay.com/i/121780765176?chn=ps&dispItem=1

Hm, no fog? Not exactly sure what fog means in this situationā€¦